The super middleweight division is in the process of staging a series of uncoordinated elimination bouts to find a replacement for Joe Calzaghe at the top of its hierarchy.
Calzaghe, moving up in weight to hunt bigger game nearer his age, has left a void that does not lack qualified candidates to fill the position. In November, America will nominate the winner of the Jermain Taylor – Jeff Lacy fight to represent the Good Ol' USA. Across the Atlantic, Brit Carl Froch fights Canadian Jean Pascal in December to determine the representative from the Commonwealth. Tonight, the two continents cross paths, when Canadian-based Romanian Lucian Bute takes on battle-hardened Mexican Librado Andrade on Showtime. It is a tasty clash that will provide plenty of punches and late round thrills, given the duo’s respective bodies of work.
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